Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 32 14
Rank change year-on-year +16 -18 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure 143 26 56
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 12.20% 6.57% 12.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.01% 22.61% 41.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 19 45
10th Percentile £408 £185 £185
25th Percentile £465 £344 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.78% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £594 £531 £588
90th Percentile £688 £540 £624
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -8.26%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 493 115 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 42.06% 29.04% 28.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 90 94
10th Percentile £366 £257 £203
25th Percentile £425 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +1.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £557 £600 £588
90th Percentile £656 £653 £624
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.20
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
% change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -60.26%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
Sheffield +12 139 £514 +14.22% 26
Doncaster - 1 £525 - 2
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (6.99%) Confluence
2 9 (6.29%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.20%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.70%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 88 (61.54%) AWS
2 83 (58.04%) GCP
3 21 (14.69%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (14.69%) OpenShift
4 19 (13.29%) Entra ID
5 18 (12.59%) GitHub
6 13 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 10 (6.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (4.90%) Serverless
9 6 (4.20%) OneDrive
9 6 (4.20%) SaaS
10 5 (3.50%) Azure Storage
11 4 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.80%) ChatGPT
11 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (2.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.29%) SAN
2 7 (4.90%) Firewall
2 7 (4.90%) Network Security
3 5 (3.50%) DNS
3 5 (3.50%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.80%) NAS
5 3 (2.10%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.40%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.40%) VSAN
7 1 (0.70%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.70%) HTTP
7 1 (0.70%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.99%) Power BI
2 9 (6.29%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.90%) Neo4j
5 6 (4.20%) Big Data
5 6 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.50%) MySQL
7 4 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.80%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.80%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.80%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.10%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.10%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.70%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.70%) DataStage
9 1 (0.70%) DB2
9 1 (0.70%) Metadata
9 1 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.70%) Parquet
9 1 (0.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (25.87%) Jenkins
2 33 (23.08%) JIRA
3 26 (18.18%) GitLab
4 14 (9.79%) Selenium
5 13 (9.09%) Cucumber
5 13 (9.09%) Git
5 13 (9.09%) REST Assured
6 11 (7.69%) Postman
7 5 (3.50%) Gatling
7 5 (3.50%) JMeter
7 5 (3.50%) TestRail
8 4 (2.80%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.80%) LoadRunner
8 4 (2.80%) NeoLoad
9 3 (2.10%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (2.10%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.10%) Fiddler
10 2 (1.40%) Maven
10 2 (1.40%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.40%) Terragrunt
General
1 62 (43.36%) Social Skills
2 46 (32.17%) Finance
3 28 (19.58%) Banking
4 11 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.90%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.50%) Law
7 4 (2.80%) Legal
8 3 (2.10%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (20.28%) Lead
2 26 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (11.19%) Architect
4 10 (6.99%) Test Automation Engineer
4 10 (6.99%) Test Engineer
5 8 (5.59%) Developer
6 7 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (4.90%) Data Engineer
7 6 (4.20%) Automation Test Lead
7 6 (4.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.20%) Consultant
7 6 (4.20%) Security Engineer
7 6 (4.20%) Test Leader
8 5 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (3.50%) Java Developer
8 5 (3.50%) Lead DevOps
8 5 (3.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 5 (3.50%) Test Architect
8 5 (3.50%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.18%) REST
2 24 (16.78%) OpenID
3 20 (13.99%) LDAP
4 16 (11.19%) SailPoint
5 10 (6.99%) OAuth
6 8 (5.59%) .NET
6 8 (5.59%) Kafka
6 8 (5.59%) SAML
7 6 (4.20%) PySpark
7 6 (4.20%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.50%) Middleware
8 5 (3.50%) OAuth2
8 5 (3.50%) Playwright
9 4 (2.80%) ARM Templates
9 4 (2.80%) JSON
9 4 (2.80%) React
9 4 (2.80%) RESTful
10 3 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (2.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.58%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 12 (8.39%) Data Centre
5 11 (7.69%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.20%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.50%) FlexPod
8 4 (2.80%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.80%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (2.80%) Replication
9 3 (2.10%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (2.10%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (2.10%) EMC VNX
9 3 (2.10%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.40%) IoT
11 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.29%) Linux
2 8 (5.59%) Data ONTAP
2 8 (5.59%) VMS
3 7 (4.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.20%) CoreOS
5 5 (3.50%) Windows
6 4 (2.80%) Unix
7 3 (2.10%) AIX
8 1 (0.70%) Android
8 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (58.74%) DevOps
2 79 (55.24%) CI/CD
3 36 (25.17%) Containerisation
4 34 (23.78%) Agile
5 32 (22.38%) Test Automation
6 29 (20.28%) Cybersecurity
7 28 (19.58%) Observability
7 28 (19.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 27 (18.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (17.48%) DevSecOps
10 24 (16.78%) Identity Access Management
10 24 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (16.08%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (15.38%) Microservices
12 22 (15.38%) Migration
13 18 (12.59%) AI
13 18 (12.59%) Analytics
13 18 (12.59%) Data Ingestion
13 18 (12.59%) ETL
14 17 (11.89%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 46 (32.17%) Python
2 39 (27.27%) Java
3 33 (23.08%) SQL
4 16 (11.19%) Bash
5 14 (9.79%) PowerShell
6 11 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.90%) Go
8 5 (3.50%) PHP
8 5 (3.50%) Scala
9 4 (2.80%) C#
9 4 (2.80%) Cypher
9 4 (2.80%) Groovy
9 4 (2.80%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.80%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.80%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.10%) Bicep
11 1 (0.70%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (4.20%) AWS Certification
1 6 (4.20%) Degree
1 6 (4.20%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.50%) CISSP
2 5 (3.50%) OCP
2 5 (3.50%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (2.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (2.80%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.80%) CCSP
3 4 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (2.80%) CISM
3 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.10%) CCSK
4 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.10%) NCDA
4 3 (2.10%) NCIE
4 3 (2.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (1.40%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.70%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.79%) QA
2 6 (4.20%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.50%) NIST
4 4 (2.80%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.80%) SLA
4 4 (2.80%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.10%) GDPR
6 2 (1.40%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.40%) GRC
7 1 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (16.08%) Docker
2 15 (10.49%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 11 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (5.59%) NFS
5 8 (5.59%) vSphere
6 5 (3.50%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 4 (2.80%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.10%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (2.10%) SRDF
8 3 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.70%) Ceph
9 1 (0.70%) KVM
Systems Management
1 54 (37.76%) Kubernetes
2 39 (27.27%) Terraform
3 25 (17.48%) Ansible
4 15 (10.49%) Grafana
5 10 (6.99%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.59%) SnapMirror
7 4 (2.80%) Kustomize
7 4 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (2.10%) Argo
8 3 (2.10%) EMC VPLEX
8 3 (2.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (1.40%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (1.40%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.40%) SnapVault
9 2 (1.40%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.70%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.70%) Istio
10 1 (0.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (20.28%) Microsoft
2 22 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 19 (13.29%) Google
4 12 (8.39%) Databricks
5 11 (7.69%) VMware
6 10 (6.99%) Red Hat
7 9 (6.29%) NetApp
8 8 (5.59%) Oracle
8 8 (5.59%) Splunk
9 7 (4.90%) OpenAI
10 4 (2.80%) Alibaba
10 4 (2.80%) EMC
11 3 (2.10%) AppDynamics
11 3 (2.10%) Brocade
11 3 (2.10%) Cisco
11 3 (2.10%) CyberArk
11 3 (2.10%) Dell
11 3 (2.10%) IBM
11 3 (2.10%) Okta
11 3 (2.10%) Veeam
33 Azure jobs in South Yorkshire